Test Manager, Compliance (Banking, 1-year renewable contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage end-to-end testing delivery across infrastructure, platform, and Compliance Technology initiatives, ensuring successful execution within scope, timeline, and quality standards.
• Oversee testing services delivered by multiple vendors, ensuring alignment with testing strategies, governance standards, and project objectives.
• Review and approve test strategies, test plans, test cases, and other testing artefacts to ensure comprehensive coverage across infrastructure and application changes.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, application, security, business, and vendor teams to coordinate testing activities, resolve dependencies, and manage delivery risks.
• Drive testing planning, execution, defect management, environment readiness, and production validation for infrastructure upgrades, platform modernization, system migrations, and regulatory technology initiatives.
• Monitor testing progress, SLAs, KPIs, risks, and issues, providing timely reporting and escalation management to key stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise testing methodologies, governance standards, and delivery frameworks across Agile, Hybrid Agile, Waterfall, and DevOps environments.
• Support testing transformation initiatives by introducing automation, continuous improvement, modern testing practices, and emerging technologies including GenAI-assisted testing.
• Collaborate with Test Engineering teams to define infrastructure and platform-specific testing requirements and ensure successful implementation.
• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, technology teams, and vendor Test Managers to deliver high-quality testing services across the portfolio.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Test Management, Test Delivery, or Test Program Management within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end testing services across multiple vendor partners for large-scale infrastructure or enterprise technology programmes.
• Strong experience delivering testing for infrastructure, platform, middleware, system integration, migration, or technology transformation projects.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), containerized environments, Kubernetes platforms, or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience working with AS400 (IBM i) environments, including testing, integration, modernization, or migration initiatives involving legacy platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise testing methodologies, frameworks, tools, and delivery models including Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid Agile, and DevOps.
• Domain knowledge of Compliance Technology, including AML, KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Transaction Monitoring systems.
• Familiarity with AML/KYC platforms such as Detica (NetReveal), Actimize, Mantas, or other financial crime compliance solutions.
• Experience with enterprise testing tools such as JIRA, HP ALM/Quality Center, Tosca, Selenium, UFT/QTP, LoadRunner, or equivalent.
• Exposure to GenAI-enabled testing approaches and AI-assisted testing tools is highly advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across infrastructure, application, security, compliance, business, and vendor teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, with experience managing geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
• PMP, ISTQB, TMMi, or other relevant project management or testing certifications are highly preferred.